Happy Family Day-- March 23, 2012

Hi everyone--

We celebrated Family Day with all four of the girls, for the first time since we held Ellie-Kate for the first time in China! We traveled to COSI in Columbus, and the little girls had a great time with all of the standard features-- rat basketball, playtime in the gadget area, and adventures in the nostalgia area. After lunch, the older girls went through an Indiana Jones-like display while we took Ellie-Kate to the very cool toddler playground. We finished up our time at COSI by enjoying the Gadget Cafe, doing fun science experiments.

After COSI, we played games and ate pizza at Chuckie Cheese and then drove home to cheer on the Bobcats from our living room as they played the school's first Sweet 16 game since 1964. What a wonderful, relaxing day!!

It was a tremendous time of remembering, celebrating, and pausing to share time as a family, especially in light of Ellie-Kate's health issues over the past week. We are so blessed to have her in our lives... for her to be generally healthy given what we thought that we faced at the outset... for her to be such an amazing little girl... and for her to completely light up our world!!

We love you, Ellie-Kate!!